Cigarette or cigar



A. D. RAWLINGS CIGARETTE OR CIGAR Jan. 18, 193&

Invenfor:

A- D. P1 WZZ'n IS Filed Oct. 5, 1935 Patented Jan. 18, 1938 PATENT OFFIQE Application October 5, 1935, Serial No. 43,723 In Great Britain October 9, 1934 1 Claim.

This invention relates to, and has for its object the provision of improvements in, cigarettes or cigars.

In accordance with the invention I provide a cigarette or cigar having permanently afii-xed thereto a device which is normally collapsed to a stored or non-operative condition and may be drawn out to form substantially a cigarette or cigar holder.

The invention further contemplates a cigarette holder comprising a strip of suitable material wound into a roll and adapted to be drawn out by its inner turn to the form of a tapered tube constituting the smoke passage.

In order that the invention may be the more closely understood, a cigarette in accordance therewith will now be described, reference bein made to the accompanying drawing wherein:--

Figure 1 is a side view of said cigarette with the holder device at the drawn out position.

Figure 2 is a similar view with said holder device at the collapsed position,

Figure 3 is an enlarged section of the lower end of the cigarette including the holder device at the collapsed position.

Figure 4 is a cross section on line l4 of Figure 3.

Figure 5 is a similar view to Figure 4 illustrating a slightly modified form of holder device.

Referring first to Figures 1-4, the holder device comprises a strip of waxed paper I say 15 inches long and A; of an inch wide wound into a roll, which roll is secured in the manner of a plug within the extremity of the cigarette 2, say by its outside turn being gummed to the inner surface of the surrounding cigarette paper 2a. When the cigarette is to be smoked this roll I is drawn. out by its inner turn longitudinally of the cigarette somewhat in the manner of a telescope, so that it assumesthe form of a tapered tube as shown in Figure 1, which will serve as an ordinary cigarette holder.

A mouthpiece 3 is provided which also serves as the means by which the roll I is to be drawn out as stated. This consists of a short tube of paper material gummed within the innermost turn of the roll and having its end just projecting from the roll. This projecting end is provided With an enlarged flange as shown, by engaging which with the finger nails or teeth the roll I may be drawn out as stated. When the roll I is drawn out this flange constitutes the usual enlarged extremity suitable to the mouthpiece of a cigarette holder.

The end of the roll within the cigarette abuts against a washer 4 which may suitably constitute a nicotine filter and which prevents the mouthpiece 3 being inadvertently pushed inwards so that the flanged end thereof would be inaccessible for drawing out the roll.

The tube forming the mouthpiece 3 may be itself constituted by a paper strip rolled up with its turns gummed together and the flange may be similarly constituted by a narrower rolled strip. Alternatively the mouthpiece may be made of papier-mach.

It will be appreciated that the roll I may be drawn out to form a tube of just the length de sired. Thus it would be possible to draw it out only to a short length, or not at all, upon first lighting up and later as the length of the cigarette proper decreases the length of the tube could be increased so as to keep the smoke stream always at a suitable distance from the face.

In a somewhat modified arrangement the roll instead of being constituted by a single strip may comprise two or more strips la, lb (Figure the second strip lb being wound outside the first,

but in the opposite direction, and having its inner rather especially suitable as the lower end of the cigarette has two thicknesses of wrapping and therefore affords a rather more stable support for the holder device. The invention may however clearly be applied to cigarettes of all types as Well as to cigars.

In some cases the roll, instead of being permanently attached to the cigarette or cigar, may have its outer turn secured within a small tubular piece in which the end of the cigarette or cigar is adapted to be fitted as in an ordinary holder. The inside of this tubular piece may be coated with a gum which upon moistening adheres to the cigarette or cigar so as to prevent the latter from falling. out inadvertently.

As clearly shown in Figure 3, the mouthpiece 3 is of substantially rigid structure and of a length greater than the Width of the wound strip, so that the greater portion of the mouthpiece extends into the wound strip for substantially the width of the wound strip with the enlarged flange of the mouthpiece extending from and abutting the outer edge of the wound strip. This structure and arrangement of parts will provide a supporting core for the outer end of the wound strip when said strip is drawn out to the tapered tube form shown in Figure 1, and which supporting core will prevent the collapsing of said outer end of the tapered tube while the cigarette is smoked.

I claim:

As an article of manufacture, a smokable roll, a strip of material of uniform width wound into a roll having a bore and the outer end portion of the strip secured to one end of the smokable roll with one edge of the wound strip adjacent the smokable roll, a tubular mouthpiece having an exterior enlargement at one end engaged in the bore of the wound strip to extend substantially the length of the wound strip with the enlargement abutting the outer edge of the wound strip and the portion of the mouthpiece engaged in the bore of the wound strip secured to the inner end portion of the strip, the enlargement providing means for drawing out the wound strip to form a tapered tube and the portion of the mouthpiece engaged in the wound strip forming a supporting core for the outer end of said tapered tube to prevent the collapsing of said end of the tapered tube.

ARTHUR DANIEL RAWLINGS. 

